AMD Radeon R9 290 Launch Delayed by a week

Yesterday AMD informed its partners and the press that the AMD Radeon R9 290 non X model of the card will be delayed and it is now scheduled to be released somewhere next week. The reason is that Nvidia lowered its prices massively on the 770 and 780. AMD thinks that with a new driver they can tweak the 290 card a little more.

The new driver should make the card more competitive with the GeForce GTX 780 and it would even be able to beat a Titan in UHD. We'll have to wait and see what is gonna happen.

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On a serious note, no worries. The 290 isn't bringing something we haven't seen already, so I understand their "tweaking" delay for competitiveness.

1 week delay for a more productive/faster product its not that bad. But they lose sales as it is already so its not for the better for them.

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#4688301 Posted on: 10/30/2013 02:06 PM
Hopefully AMD didn't do this because it was distracted by the 780ti. Its flagship card is the 290x, and the 290 should be priced to sit nicely between the $300 280x and $550 290x. Pricing to beat Nvidia at every segment of the market is AMD's forte, not skirt chasing.

So I would like to see it meet or beat the stock 780 for $400-$450. I find Nvidia puzzling with trying to cannibalize the Titan by making a Ti version of a lower tier GK110. Seems they gave up on the $1000 Titan, unless the 780ti actually turns out to be an improved refresh of Titan.

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#4688302 Posted on: 10/30/2013 02:07 PM
Yeah, according to videocard z, the new driver will bring a significant performance increase.

#4688814 Posted on: 10/30/2013 10:38 PM
Hopefully AMD didn't do this because it was distracted by the 780ti. Its flagship card is the 290x, and the 290 should be priced to sit nicely between the $300 280x and $550 290x. Pricing to beat Nvidia at every segment of the market is AMD's forte, not skirt chasing.

So I would like to see it meet or beat the stock 780 for $400-$450. I find Nvidia puzzling with trying to cannibalize the Titan by making a Ti version of a lower tier GK110. Seems they gave up on the $1000 Titan, unless the 780ti actually turns out to be an improved refresh of Titan.

Nvidia can't even keep up with production of Titans to meet the demand for it. What world are you actually living in? How are sales being cannablized on a card they can't keep on the shelves? If anything it would eat into 780 sales. Lower tier GK110? What, like the current cards compared to prior gen Tesla GK110s?

Titans are currently one of, if not the best option for many aspects of video production/editing/content creation and utterly destroy the K5000, an inferior card that costs almost twice the price.

Last I checked 780ti specs had yet to be annoucned and I'd imagine it's just going to be a small clock boost over the 780SC maybe.

All this means is that AMD, desperate for a slice of marketshare, tried to launch an unfinished product (which was probably not going to live up to the performance they claimed once actual retail cards were in the wild en masse). Everyone and their non tech-savy mother knew Nvidia would drop pricing within a week tops of the AMD announcement -- something you think that at least one person at AMD would have anticipated.

I see an article linked which explicitly says no details have been released and 5 pages of fluff.

The leaked/rumored specs you linked to are... puzzling at best.

With a pactically un-nerfed GK110 I can't see where a Titan fits in their product offering. Unless that is the intent, and to drive content creators back to Quadro models by only offering high VRAM options on those cards and no longer GTX, as these higher VRAM cards are in huge huge demand right now with 4k being the latest flavor of the month.

If they're offering a full blown GK110 for 700$ I think pricing is the last thing AMD should be worried about.

I'll hold my conclusion though until all specs are official and both cards have been in the wild for a couple weeks.

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#4689875 Posted on: 11/01/2013 01:08 AM
Let's see...

AMD 290/X cards.... Catered for the 5-10 people that own UHD monitors!

Poor nVidia fans trying to play AMD's strengths as weaknesses. I feel sorry for your logic, you're saying that AMD's new card is capable of doing incredible feats of graphics processing, better than nVidia can and for much less, but it's useless because nobody has a 4k monitor (because they are expensive?).

Yet you're willing to spend $1,000 dollars on an overpriced Titan card, nVidia just openly ripping you off and you act like you're ok with that. ITS AN ENTHUSIAST GAMING CARD! It's not designed for video production, quit trying to make up excuses for the nVidia TITANIC.

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#4689885 Posted on: 11/01/2013 01:18 AM
Let's see...

Poor nVidia fans trying to play AMD's strengths as weaknesses. I feel sorry for your logic, you're saying that AMD's new card is capable of doing incredible feats of graphics processing, better than nVidia can and for much less, but it's useless because nobody has a 4k monitor (because they are expensive?).

Yet you're willing to spend $1,000 dollars on an overpriced Titan card, nVidia just openly ripping you off and you act like you're ok with that. ITS AN ENTHUSIAST GAMING CARD! It's not designed for video production, quit trying to make up excuses for the nVidia TITANIC.I could care less which card is faster nvidia or amd. people that care tend to be "fans" of one of those 2 company`s.

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#4689889 Posted on: 11/01/2013 01:22 AM
Specs... are.... where?

I see an article linked which explicitly says no details have been released and 5 pages of fluff.

The leaked/rumored specs you linked to are... puzzling at best.

With a pactically un-nerfed GK110 I can't see where a Titan fits in their product offering. Unless that is the intent, and to drive content creators back to Quadro models by only offering high VRAM options on those cards and no longer GTX, as these higher VRAM cards are in huge huge demand right now with 4k being the latest flavor of the month.

If they're offering a full blown GK110 for 700$ I think pricing is the last thing AMD should be worried about.

Specs of the 780 Ti are confirmed now, videocard z has all the info, it is indeed a full blown GK110.

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#4689943 Posted on: 11/01/2013 02:20 AM
Ok is it just me or have we had a glut of fanboys since just before the 290x release just joining the site to blast off Nvidia is $hit or AMD is $hit and then disappear after a few posts? most dont even care to fill out proper specs or have completely imbalanced specs.

Corporate paid dogs.

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#4689944 Posted on: 11/01/2013 02:21 AM
Ok is it just me or have we had a glut of fanboys since just before the 290x release just joining the site to blast off Nvidia is $hit or AMD is $hit and then disappear after a few posts? most dont even care to fill out proper specs or have completely imbalanced specs.